September 1, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Braves winning their first game over the Dodgers thanks to a Ronald Acuna grand slam, Hal Steinbrenner's plan to review the Yankees obsession with analytics, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's ourburto a heavyweight Rubarb in Los Angeles.
We go the Atlanta Braves in La Little Southern Hospitality
as they take the first game of the big weekend
series over the Dodgers. Is that a big deal, a
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little deal or no deal? Also, what do you make
of how Steinbreiner's recent comments that he plans on reviewing
the Yankees obsession with analytics? And how wild is this
story involving David Ortiz and extortion. I'll discuss that and
much more here. It is our number two, A heavyweight
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Rubarb on the Diamond wel gome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mallor Show.
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talk some baseball. Now. A lot of these radio shows
they don't like talking baseball. They have the hebgebs. We
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gotta talk to baseball. Certain guys will only talk about
the Yankees, of the Meds or the Red Sox. They
won't talk aboutybody else. But there's a good baseball story
going on on the field. And I know it was
the first day of September, and this is the Pennant Race,
and we've got to waiting for October because that's when
it gets real October baseball. But nonetheless, we're gonna start
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at Chavez Ravine, a couple of big monsters of the
Baseball Midway in Los Angeles. If you didn't see this
matchup on Thursday night, the Atlanta Traveling Circus paying a
visit to Blue Heaven is the late Tommy THESORTI used
to call it. And the Atlanta Braves fell behind one
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nothing early on in the game and then played home
run derby Ronald Lacuno Junior with a grand salami, get
out the rye bread and the mustard. Grandma. Yeah, so
Ronald Lacuno Junior get it done there with the Grand Slam.
You had Austin Riley hit home run, Michael Harris the
second hit home run. At one point it was seven
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to one Atlanta Brys, and it looked like it was
going to be a mockery of the Dodgers, that the
Braves had put the Dodgers in their place. But then, ooh,
the plot twist. The Dodgers woke up from hibernation and
they then rallied back Mookie Betts, not one, but teut
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dangers from Mookie as he's currently having the greatest season
in baseball history for a leadoff hitter in terms of
power numbers. Insane. But in the end, the Dodgers came
up a wee bit short, and Round one of this
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four round boxing match goes the way of the Bravos
eight to seven. Pretty the pretty good start to the weekend,
even though the bad guys. In my opinion, I won
this game. So let us discuss the question the Atlanta
Braves getting the first game of this series over the Dodgers.
Is that a big deal, a little deal, or no deal?
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So I've got Mama Mia absentee and Batman under ruse
and we will combine these three random things together, and
we are going to make a bottle of ketchup. Is
what We're going to make, just a random bottle of ketchup.
So yes, A to answer the question, it is not
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a big deal. It's not a little deal. It's not
no deal. It's a tiny deal. I'm going not tiny
d answer, it's a tiny deal. The Braves are what
we thought they were. They were a solid team. They
have the greatest record blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. Already knew that they faced the guy who's kryptonite,
lance Lynn, Big Old lance linn tons of fun lance Lin,
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the big guy whatever, lance Lynn, who has been the
maestro of the Gopher ball, Like that's his thing, right,
that's his weakness. The Braves hit a lot of home runs.
He throws pitches that are right in the wheel house,
and that generally does not go well watching lance Lynn pitch.
And he missed a couple of spots that it was
a play that Max Munsey could have made on the
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shift there that would have helped him out, but it
wasn't made defensively, and then he ended up giving giving
up a big home run, a couple of home runs.
Actually I believe in that any but Lancelyn watching him
pitch against that robust Atlanta Brave lineup was disconcerting. It was,
and the Dodgers. It's a reminder that while this lineup
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is loaded, they are going to need players to go
above their means. They're gonna need smoking mirrors and all
kinds of magical powers in the playoffs, because it's a
mama meet a situation with the guys. They're rolling out
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to the mound most nights. It's a spicy meatball, right.
You look at the head to head and other than
Clayton Kershaw, that's it. Nobody else has been that consistent
from beginning to end. Some guys that fitched better lately
for the Dodgers, but it's a get out the Alca
Seltzer and you're going to need some abra cadabra. But
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the great thing about baseball, and the reassuring thing about baseball,
is that we have seen many times inferior pitching staffs
who are able to sling together slop and just do
barely enough, and you have some people that actually step
up in the moment. So it's I'm saying there's a chance,
I'm saying there's a chance. But as far as this
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game it, you know, it looked like it was gonna
be a complete rat kill. But by the end of
the game, Atlanta was on their heels. They were the
ones that were biting their fingernails at the end of
the game. So that that proved to be an interesting
twist considering the way the game was going when it
was seven to one Atlanta. But the Dodgers, the fact
they did not roll over and play dead, that is reassuring.
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And so we'll see what happens to the rest the way.
But that even if the Dodgers come back and win
the next three games, or should the Atlanta Braves sweep
all the games, win all four games this weekend, all
of that is merely prologue, and we are on a
collision course. If you look at the other stiffs in
the National League playoff field, the other teams haven't qualify
for the postseason in terms of town. Now, the most
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talented team doesn't always win. But they've got the Braves
and the Dodgers who are out in front by many
lengths over everyone else in the National League, and so
they'll be a hooton Nanny in Georgia and in Calli
in October for all the marbles in the National League.
And again, the Braves can sweep this weekend and it
doesn't change that as a reality. Now, let's shuffle off
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to the boogey down Bronx where they knew your Yankees
are threatening to have their first losing season since nineteen
ninety Tu, if you're a Yankee header man, is this
a big deal? Now? I bring this up because of
some commentary given by hal Steinbrenner. Now, hol Steinbrenner is
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the guy that inherited being the owner of the Yankees
because he happened to have good bloodlines. And he revealed
that he is going to review every aspect of the
Brox Bombers organization. And he gave a blowhard statement there,
bringing in outside consultants to look over everything. He said,
outside of the company. You love when they call baseball
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team's companies, don't you love that? And hal Steinberger also
said the Yankees are going to look at the almighty,
all powerful, all encompassing analytics side of what they do.
He said, baseball operations in general. He did not say
that he was going to fire the GM that's been
there since the nineties. He didn't say that. So what
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do you make of hal Steinbrenner's plan to review the Yankees'
obsession with analytics? So I file this one in bombastic
blust is what I follow this one in The Yankees
are going to put more cooks in the kitchen, is
what they're going. That's what it sounds like. Maybe I'm
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interpreting that wrong. What do I know? I just do
the Overnight show, but another layer of bureaucracy. But the
head chef in that kitchen with all the cooks, the
head chef, Brian Cashman, will stay the same. Analytics is
a double edged sword. It's a blessing in some ways
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because it convinces people that they have all the answers.
But it's also a curse because you're dealing with human beings.
That's the problem with analytics and everything in balance and
all of those numbers and the squiggly lines and all that.
They merely tell you what has happened, not what's going
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to happen. And in the Bronx, hal Steinbrenner, this is
my take, and I'm gonna die on this take. Hal
Steinbrenner is an app t owner. He's an absentee owner.
He lives in Tampa. It's old money, it's all. It's
not money that he made. He inherited it from his pops.
It's the family business. The Yankees make a wonderful prophet,
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a glorious prophet, and Hal Steinbrenner lives on the beach
there in Tampa. He's living his great life and he's comfortable.
And whatever happens in New York, Brian Cashman will take
care of it, and the status quo remains all right.
Last word, we have a baseball scandal. What kind of
a former MLB legend of the game. It could be
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some very interesting waters here soon. We're talking about Big Poppy,
the Red sox icon turned a baseball pundit David Ortiz,
who recently revealed, I don't know if you saw this
or that, he revealed on the socials that he is
a victim of what he claims his extortion, or at
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least an attempt at extortion. In a social media video,
David Ortiz claims that a rogue group of hackers have
taken over his old phone. They had his old phone,
they gained access to that old phone, and they are
also threatening to leak its contents unless they get a payout. Now,
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in addition to his old phone, the hackers were able
to gain access to his bank account. So if they
really get his bank accounts, it would think why didn't
they just strain the money. Apparently they didn't get all
the way in, they just had access to it. I
don't know what that means, but that's what he said,
and so Ortiz went public with this How wild? How
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wild is this David Ortiz extortion story? Well, we have
no idea, but I would advise hang the clothesline, because
if this gets out, and it's not just the David
Ortiz problem, it's a problem that you have, it's a
problem that I have. We all have it. But hang
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the clothesline. There'll be a lot of dirty batman under
ruse and all kinds of dirty socks with holes in
them and you name it that are going to be
getting the air dry treatment. Because we have all got
some very interesting things on our phones, whether it's photos
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that maybe shouldn't be there, politically incorrect, common whatever it
might be. We all got that right. Human beings do
that kind of thing. So David Ortiz. He's a rich
human being, which makes it even more of an issue,
and the areas he hangs in, and so he's trying
the effort. I know why he's doing this. Like the
reason Ortiz went public is because they said, hey, listen,
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these idiots are going to try to sell this stuff
to TMZ or some other website, gossip website, radar online,
those places that will often pay for content, and so
Ortiz is trying to cut them off at the pass.
And the problem is this, while it certainly will likely
work where the main tabloid old school tabloid media will
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not pay for this content, the social media stuff, there's
no way to stop, and it lives forever on the
dark web. So that's the that's the issue right there.
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Why is that, Ben, Well.
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There's a big announcement. Eddie Big and Ellie.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Oh, we didn't know anything about that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No, you know what the announcement is.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
No, No, you left all your teammates in the dark.
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Well, I mean you probably know. You could probably figure
it out. No, you don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I have no idea what it is.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I looked on the internet and people I teased it
because I'm a loser and I want people to listen,
because I think it's part of the job to have
people listen, because it's broadcasting, not narrow casting. And a
lot of people thought I was going to join Roberto
and become a bus driver, which might be true. Maybe
that's what Maybe that's what I'll do, become a become
a bus driver.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I don't know, maybe opening up your own cookie shop.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Oh yeah, those the cookies. I made it. You're coming
around the cookies. You're coming around with those.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You don't have those ones with the blue frosting that
look like.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
A good man. Those blue frosting ones are awesome.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Hey Ben, what? Oh, I'm sorry. I just want to
injectently about food.
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Oh you have a food because I doesn't in and
out pay a lot of money, like they pay pretty
well in and out Burger.
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I was just curious.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
You said you had tried the best juicy lucies in
Minneapolis Saint Paul area.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Right, well, I went to the according to the Internet,
I went to the top three juicy loosey restaurants. The
there's one in Saint Paul and then the other two
are like in Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
So so the one in Saint Paul. Was it a
combination bowling Alley?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yes? Yes, I went there.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Oh yeah, that place rules.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Yeah yeah, a little underground bar, yeah yeah yeah, the
basement you got like the dollar bills on the ceiling
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah yeah. In fact, that place is so cool. I
did not realize this, but that and I forget the
name of it, would give him a plug. But one
of the listeners in Minnesota recommended I go there, and
right across the way, there's like a baseball field and
that's like where Paul malletor the Hall of Fame baseball player.
That's like that was his place that he went to school.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
I think that.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yeah, it's like Saint Mary's or it's like a very
small school college, right, yeah, I think. I think nice
campus right across the way.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And they honored Paul Maltor. And I can't think of
a better honor than naming a juicy lucy after well, they.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Named a cigarette after him, you know, Paul malls So wow.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah. By the way, did you know I was saying,
have you ever been to Denver?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I have? Have you had the Ben Mather chicken sandwich
in Denver? Have you had that? Where is it? I
don't have. That's the Sportsbook, bar and grill there in
three locations. By when we when we started doing this
with the there was one location that that that sandwich
is so popular and three locations around Denver. Have you
ever been to.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Kansas That's okay, Sam, he hasn't had it either.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Shut up? Have you ever been to Kansas City?
Speaker 7 (18:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I have the Ben Mallard chicken fingers. Have you been
at the Landing oh my god, in Liberty, Missouri, Bibecue place.
But so, no, no, no, what Kansas City is the
home of the chicken finger. It's not the home of
the barbecue.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
The home of the chicken finger.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yes, the Ben Mallard chicken finger.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Everybody in Kansas City just got really pissed off you.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, they did not. They love me and keep until
you just said that. No, no, listen, the locals eat
the chicken fingers. That's what they do anyway. Freddie writes,
and he says, I guess they don't call David Ortiz
big Poppy for no reason.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Who else do we have page down here? Anthony and Anheims.
As I heard your announcement is that I will be
banned from calling the show and that Jed, who fled,
will be caller of the Year. He said, Splenda the splendor.
Daddy writes in he's doing the Tomahawk chop as we
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speak right now. He says, Ben, you get a tiny
day for your Dodger talk. Go Braves. So he says, uh,
you gotta have a fall guy truck or Joe writes
in he is on the highways and byways of North America.
He says, I wonder if the big Poppy extortion has
anything to do with him getting a shot a few
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years ago. He better be careful there you go, before
something happens, You've got to have a fall guy. Yeah.
I love that excuse that it was a mistake, a
case of mistaken identity. The only like fat guy in
the whole restaurant happened to get shot. But it was
a mistaken identity thing there. And there were some wild
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gossip stories about what was going on. That story completely
went away, all the gossip about what was on the
internet about David o'de's and what was going on. It's
like completely vanished. Uh. And Jill writes, and she's in
the Minnesota. She points out that Joe Mauer went to
that school right across the street, and it's the Nook
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by the way, I was saying.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Joel, Yeah, what a cool spot.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Uh, it's a high school Econ, Roseville, Minnesota, says, a
high school across the street from the Nook. Is is
it Creton?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Is that the Oh, it's like a Creton Durham. He's
like a lot of famous athletes have come out of there.
The name another one I think was it I might
be wrong here. Jalen Suggs who played at Gonzaga. He
might have come out of there, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I know he's from I look up. But this is
the content the listener needs.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
There is a small university or college. It's nearby that
my buddy took me to. It is a nice campus.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Joe Mauer, Paul Molliger and uh that's two. Chris Wank oh,
Chris Wenk Creed Durham.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Wasn't he fifty when he won?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Jalen Suggs, he's from some else.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
I don't know if I know any of these these
other names. I mean you probably do, but well.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Why would I Why would I know the old guys
old dude, I mean you know. Oh, here's one, but
I do. Matt Burke, Eddie, you remember Matt Burke offensive
Lineman for the Vikings, and I do, yes, I do.
Matt Burke went to this high school.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Oh, I must clarify.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Jalen Sugs went to uh Minnehaha Academy Minaha.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
It's actually ends in haha.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's unfortunate knowledge about so you got it wrong. I
mean that's about Michael Floyd. He's from random NFL receiver.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Oh, I know, I know Michael Floyd. I know that name.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, remember the name right? Oh, this is great conversation
in this good radio. Oh here's one Tim Tim remember
the umpire Eddie?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I do the name sounds familiar?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, well this is this is fascinating. Let's take some calls.
What do you say? Why not? Otherwise if the bosses
hear this, I will not be able to even make
it to my big announcement because I will be torn
off the air.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
We have a lot of listeners in that area, so
I'm probably doing good.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
We do, man, I tell you, and I met many
of them, and some legends. Legends came out to me.
The mala mean grey. Let's say hello to any meaning.
Let's go to Poppy in San Diego.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Hello Poppy, Hello guys, it's a great man. Hey Ben Mana.
That was a great show in the morning. I heard you. Man,
that's so amazing. You may like my girlfriend laugh. And
you know, I love the part when you were talking about,
you know, saving money and like saving in the airlines,
and like you were just roasting the co hols, like
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who puts up all these kind of clothes? Right? Three
layers I remember, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I hear it.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I did get a message. There was somebody who sent
me an email about you, and I wanted to run
this by are you prepared to answer the question from
the listener? Okay, are you ready for this?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Of course, Ben, you're my mentor.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Of course I'm your mentor. I don't want to I
don't want that pressure of being a mentor. I don't
know about that. I mean, that's a lot of that's
a lot of pressure. I'm trying to find it. But
the guy I think it was, Hillbilly. Hill Billy wrote
in and he says that you're so arrogant and so
over the top that he actually now likes you. But
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he said that you're you're lying. He says he's he's
gone back and listened to the podcast. He says, he
says Poppy is so bad, so full of himself, that
he's great. Hillbilly Mike writes in and says, I've gone
back to listen to pics that he has made and
they were just the opposite. So how do you respond
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to that? The way I read this, it's your you
said that you won games that you did not win, Poppy,
how do you plead.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Hey, well you know what you know, some games have won,
some games.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
On the coolbo they're no winners, they're no losers, just
how you play the game.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Hey, you know it is what it is. Ben Mallard.
You know, shout out to my fans and my haters.
I know they love me out there. And you know
this segment, that's what everyone's waiting for. This segments brought
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So there you go.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yes, I'm sure listening right now.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Yeah, of course, yeah yeah, Dann, Why what's going on
day now? You gotta have me in one of your
shows and one of your pay per views, DNA y.
So we're going with the local guys. Gary Quinn he's
at minus won any to this is add We're gonna win.
He got knocked out destroyed by Ron Orleans, which is
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the greatest heavyweight of all time. He's gonna win. Came
out as right for guys, and.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Okay, I'm done. Oh sports, Billy and Duluth wrote, and
he also had don't get a lot of email, a
lot of feedback that segment. People love that Cretan Durham
High School. I just want to I wanna talk more.
High school is what we got many We're gonna go
through the Twin cities, all the big high school. Yes school.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
I just want to clarify real quick. Uh, that call
from Poppy was not in fact sponsored by Draft Kings.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
No. No, in fact, if DraftKings ever hears that, they
will pull their sponsorship. So please don't tell DraftKings that that.
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Happens sponsored by Craftings.
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We'll just pretend that didn't happen and we'll just move on.
Anthony and Anaheim says, what city is Iowa? Sam from?
I was just in the West des Moines area.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
I'm from Ima City, eastern Iowa.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
There you go, Anthony Live.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
I don't know if I've been to Clive. I'm looking
at this tweet right.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Now, Clive Iowa. Clive at Clive Iowa.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
I don't know much about Clive.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You've never heard of Clive?
Speaker 7 (26:13):
No, no Clive talking over here.
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The Southern Utah ballments Ago All Thunderbirds in the End
z All. It is a one set game with less
than eight minutes on the clock. Unbelievable special teams play
by someone I've never heard of for Southern you thought
blocking the punt those heating points on special teams, taking
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it back to the house.
Speaker 11 (27:50):
When none of the players have the names on their jerseys.
That costs too much money.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Use it again next year.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta earn that. You gotta earn
that by going to a better school, or at least
the school that has state.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
They don't put the names on the jerseys.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And it does appear ready that I'm looking at the
crowd there in Tempe right now and it is a
partial sellout, as they say back.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
After the dust storm and thunder lightning storm, I get it.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, et.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Arizona State's bull band like they're just like, Oh, we
don't really have anything to play for.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
We can't go to a bowl game.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So they got to bring back to that cartoon mascot.
They got to bring that back, the cartoon sun Devil.
They had, Yeah, bring back Sparky.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
He's still around. Not on the helmet though anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Is that because they don't have access to sell it?
Is that what I know? That's because that's why that's
why Oregon got rid of the duck. What what? Yeah,
because they have a deal Disney gave him. I remember
hearing about it years ago. Disney. I'm paraphrasing here ready,
but you can look it up. But they had a deal.
Disney wrote the duck that they had in their helmet.
They made a deal. You can't like sell merchandise with
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the duck.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
I'm appreciating a lot of merchandise with that duck on it,
haven't they.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
The duck is still around. They can't get rid of
the duck and ducks helmet.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Though, I'm not wrong.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I mean, details might be a loft here, but.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Change their helmets every other day. Well yeah, but they
don't have the duck on.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
They do.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
We're looking at it right there. It's and this is
a throwback that I'm looking at it. They changed those
it's what's the duck?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The is it?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Daffy the Donald? It's Donald Donald's the lighter feathered duck.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
Right it's Donald donal No, I'm just daflare Daffy duck?
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Is the one.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Seen?
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Is the last time the duck was on the hell there?
Speaker 11 (29:48):
Yeah, that's a long time ago, but the duck is
still around. You made it sound like they you said
they got rid of the duck.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, I was told years ago that they removed the
duck because of marketing reasons, as they wanted to be
able to not there's some some something. They had some
agreement with Disney. They were allowed to use the logo.
But they're like, I'll look at them. Okay, how are
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We're gonna get the Mallard of the third degree. The
wedding singer story an odd one from Major League Baseball.
Ronald Acuno Junior, the MVP candidate from the Atlanta Braves,
in a grand Slam on what turned out to be
his wedding night. Say what, Yeah, he got married. The
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Braves are in LA and he went out and had
a little wedding and I'm not sure why, but he did.
And the Atlanta Braves beat the Dodgers. But Ronald Lacuna
Junior of the Braves also becoming the first player to
go thirty sixty and on the night that he became
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a married man, congratulation. You think he got a pre nup.
It's got a lot of money. Could have more money
turned out for the Instan trivia. Here we go. There
have been many impressive rookie quarterbacks. However, Blank holds the
NFL record for the most touchdown passes in a first
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career start again, all time NFL rookie quarterbacks been a
lot of good ones, but Blank holds the NFL record
for the most touchdown passes in the first career start.
That's the Insta tribute, the answer and Mallard of the
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Blank holds the NFL record for the most touchdown passes
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in his first start. That is the insta trivia. The answer, well,
the answer right now? The answer right now? Listen, does
anyone know the answer? Let's check. We'll go page down,
page down, A lot of interesting answer. Sam Maxwell guests
by Donkey Sausage, Don Henley from Art Puffin. He says,
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I don't think that was his answer. I think he
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guest by Ferg Cat And we still have this game
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of Tempe late night football. As will we see a
dramatic ending here for the upstart underdog Thunderbirds. It's a
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field goal game closing in on what less than five
minutes or so to go, and Southern Utah has the ball.
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Do you have an answer ready?
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Uh?
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Yeah, I'm gonna go with former Chicago Bear legend Mike Tomzak.
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It's a fine answer, but that's incorrect and the correct answer.
Marcus Mariota back in twenty fifteen to the old Tennessee
Titans had four touchdown passes. That is the most all
time for a rookie quarterback in his first start. Here
we go, it's smaller. How about that?
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To the third degree, this is one big fan gets grilled.
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Hoop a loop.
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It has been twenty two years since a Yankees' pitcher
has won a Cy Young Award. Garrett Cole has had
four top five finishes but has never won. Ben Do
you think this is the year that it happens?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Garrett Cole's the favorite. He's got cy Young numbers in
terms of the innings, the strikeouts, the era and all that. However,
he's not a lock even though he pitches for the
Yankees because the Yankees are a dumpster fire, and that's
gonna turn off a fair amount of voters. There's not
any pressure starts for Garrett Cole right now because the
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Yankees are just playing out the string. But the problem
is there's no one else that really stands out, like
Luis Castillo. I would be okay with Castillo. I would
go with Castillo from the Mariners, but Kevin Gossman's been okay.
But neither one of those guys is a sexy pick.
So Garrett Cole is the highest paid pitcher and all that,
so he's he's the favorite, but he's not the lock next.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
Boomer Assiasin said in an interview this week that he
loves the Eagles rushing attack, but hopes that Jalen Hurts
is less involved in it. Ben Hurts had one hundred
and sixty five rushing attempts last season. Do you think
he'll have less this year?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Why the hell does Boomer assias In carre You don't.
You don't own the Philadelphia Eagles. No, the Pixie does
for the Eagles. The Birds is the dual threadability of
Jalen Hurts. If you take that away, they're not nearly
as lethal like an anaconda as they are with Jalen Hurts.
So I disagree, and he got paid, so it's not
like he's worried about protecting him to a wed injury.
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This is the salad days of Jaialen Hurts. Play him,
play him. He got the golden parachute.
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Next, it was reported that Jason Tatum attempted to recruit
Damian Lillard to Boston but was rebuffed because Lillard is
so focused on the heat. But nothing has happened yet
in the Lillard trade front. Will it happen?
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Yes, I explained to Rob Parker the other day. I said,
what I am doing with the coward here? I said, listen,
everyone's on vacation in the NBA. They're gonna come back
from vacation. Training camp starts soon. That's when it happens.
How do we know?
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Co you pass that as a way I won?
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We go the Atlanta Braves in La Little Southern Hospitality
as they take the first game of the big weekend
series over the Dodgers. Is that a big deal, a
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little deal or no deal? Also, what do you make
of how Steinbreiner's recent comments that he plans on reviewing
the Yankees obsession with analytics? And how wild is this
story involving David Ortiz and extortion. I'll discuss that and
much more here. It is our number two, A heavyweight
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talk some baseball. Now. A lot of these radio shows
they don't like talking baseball. They have the hebgebs. We
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gotta talk to baseball. Certain guys will only talk about
the Yankees, of the Meds or the Red Sox. They
won't talk aboutybody else. But there's a good baseball story
going on on the field. And I know it was
the first day of September, and this is the Pennant Race,
and we've got to waiting for October because that's when
it gets real October baseball. But nonetheless, we're gonna start
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at Chavez Ravine, a couple of big monsters of the
Baseball Midway in Los Angeles. If you didn't see this
matchup on Thursday night, the Atlanta Traveling Circus paying a
visit to Blue Heaven is the late Tommy THESORTI used
to call it. And the Atlanta Braves fell behind one
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nothing early on in the game and then played home
run derby Ronald Lacuno Junior with a grand salami, get
out the rye bread and the mustard. Grandma. Yeah, so
Ronald Lacuno Junior get it done there with the Grand Slam.
You had Austin Riley hit home run, Michael Harris the
second hit home run. At one point it was seven
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to one Atlanta Brys, and it looked like it was
going to be a mockery of the Dodgers, that the
Braves had put the Dodgers in their place. But then, ooh,
the plot twist. The Dodgers woke up from hibernation and
they then rallied back Mookie Betts, not one, but teut
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dangers from Mookie as he's currently having the greatest season
in baseball history for a leadoff hitter in terms of
power numbers. Insane. But in the end, the Dodgers came
up a wee bit short, and Round one of this
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four round boxing match goes the way of the Bravos
eight to seven. Pretty the pretty good start to the weekend,
even though the bad guys. In my opinion, I won
this game. So let us discuss the question the Atlanta
Braves getting the first game of this series over the Dodgers.
Is that a big deal, a little deal, or no deal?
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So I've got Mama Mia absentee and Batman under ruse
and we will combine these three random things together, and
we are going to make a bottle of ketchup. Is
what We're going to make, just a random bottle of ketchup.
So yes, A to answer the question, it is not
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a big deal. It's not a little deal. It's not
no deal. It's a tiny deal. I'm going not tiny
d answer, it's a tiny deal. The Braves are what
we thought they were. They were a solid team. They
have the greatest record blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. Already knew that they faced the guy who's kryptonite,
lance Lynn, Big Old lance linn tons of fun lance Lin,
(04:48):
the big guy whatever, lance Lynn, who has been the
maestro of the Gopher ball, Like that's his thing, right,
that's his weakness. The Braves hit a lot of home runs.
He throws pitches that are right in the wheel house,
and that generally does not go well watching lance Lynn pitch.
And he missed a couple of spots that it was
a play that Max Munsey could have made on the
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shift there that would have helped him out, but it
wasn't made defensively, and then he ended up giving giving
up a big home run, a couple of home runs.
Actually I believe in that any but Lancelyn watching him
pitch against that robust Atlanta Brave lineup was disconcerting. It was,
and the Dodgers. It's a reminder that while this lineup
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is loaded, they are going to need players to go
above their means. They're gonna need smoking mirrors and all
kinds of magical powers in the playoffs, because it's a
mama meet a situation with the guys. They're rolling out
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to the mound most nights. It's a spicy meatball, right.
You look at the head to head and other than
Clayton Kershaw, that's it. Nobody else has been that consistent
from beginning to end. Some guys that fitched better lately
for the Dodgers, but it's a get out the Alca
Seltzer and you're going to need some abra cadabra. But
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the great thing about baseball, and the reassuring thing about baseball,
is that we have seen many times inferior pitching staffs
who are able to sling together slop and just do
barely enough, and you have some people that actually step
up in the moment. So it's I'm saying there's a chance,
I'm saying there's a chance. But as far as this
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game it, you know, it looked like it was gonna
be a complete rat kill. But by the end of
the game, Atlanta was on their heels. They were the
ones that were biting their fingernails at the end of
the game. So that that proved to be an interesting
twist considering the way the game was going when it
was seven to one Atlanta. But the Dodgers, the fact
they did not roll over and play dead, that is reassuring.
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And so we'll see what happens to the rest the way.
But that even if the Dodgers come back and win
the next three games, or should the Atlanta Braves sweep
all the games, win all four games this weekend, all
of that is merely prologue, and we are on a
collision course. If you look at the other stiffs in
the National League playoff field, the other teams haven't qualify
for the postseason in terms of town. Now, the most
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talented team doesn't always win. But they've got the Braves
and the Dodgers who are out in front by many
lengths over everyone else in the National League, and so
they'll be a hooton Nanny in Georgia and in Calli
in October for all the marbles in the National League.
And again, the Braves can sweep this weekend and it
doesn't change that as a reality. Now, let's shuffle off
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to the boogey down Bronx where they knew your Yankees
are threatening to have their first losing season since nineteen
ninety Tu, if you're a Yankee header man, is this
a big deal? Now? I bring this up because of
some commentary given by hal Steinbrenner. Now, hol Steinbrenner is
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the guy that inherited being the owner of the Yankees
because he happened to have good bloodlines. And he revealed
that he is going to review every aspect of the
Brox Bombers organization. And he gave a blowhard statement there,
bringing in outside consultants to look over everything. He said,
outside of the company. You love when they call baseball
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team's companies, don't you love that? And hal Steinberger also
said the Yankees are going to look at the almighty,
all powerful, all encompassing analytics side of what they do.
He said, baseball operations in general. He did not say
that he was going to fire the GM that's been
there since the nineties. He didn't say that. So what
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do you make of hal Steinbrenner's plan to review the Yankees'
obsession with analytics? So I file this one in bombastic
blust is what I follow this one in The Yankees
are going to put more cooks in the kitchen, is
what they're going. That's what it sounds like. Maybe I'm
(09:09):
interpreting that wrong. What do I know? I just do
the Overnight show, but another layer of bureaucracy. But the
head chef in that kitchen with all the cooks, the
head chef, Brian Cashman, will stay the same. Analytics is
a double edged sword. It's a blessing in some ways
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because it convinces people that they have all the answers.
But it's also a curse because you're dealing with human beings.
That's the problem with analytics and everything in balance and
all of those numbers and the squiggly lines and all that.
They merely tell you what has happened, not what's going
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to happen. And in the Bronx, hal Steinbrenner, this is
my take, and I'm gonna die on this take. Hal
Steinbrenner is an app t owner. He's an absentee owner.
He lives in Tampa. It's old money, it's all. It's
not money that he made. He inherited it from his pops.
It's the family business. The Yankees make a wonderful prophet,
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a glorious prophet, and Hal Steinbrenner lives on the beach
there in Tampa. He's living his great life and he's comfortable.
And whatever happens in New York, Brian Cashman will take
care of it, and the status quo remains all right.
Last word, we have a baseball scandal. What kind of
a former MLB legend of the game. It could be
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some very interesting waters here soon. We're talking about Big Poppy,
the Red sox icon turned a baseball pundit David Ortiz,
who recently revealed, I don't know if you saw this
or that, he revealed on the socials that he is
a victim of what he claims his extortion, or at
(11:02):
least an attempt at extortion. In a social media video,
David Ortiz claims that a rogue group of hackers have
taken over his old phone. They had his old phone,
they gained access to that old phone, and they are
also threatening to leak its contents unless they get a payout. Now,
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in addition to his old phone, the hackers were able
to gain access to his bank account. So if they
really get his bank accounts, it would think why didn't
they just strain the money. Apparently they didn't get all
the way in, they just had access to it. I
don't know what that means, but that's what he said,
and so Ortiz went public with this How wild? How
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wild is this David Ortiz extortion story? Well, we have
no idea, but I would advise hang the clothesline, because
if this gets out, and it's not just the David
Ortiz problem, it's a problem that you have, it's a
problem that I have. We all have it. But hang
(12:08):
the clothesline. There'll be a lot of dirty batman under
ruse and all kinds of dirty socks with holes in
them and you name it that are going to be
getting the air dry treatment. Because we have all got
some very interesting things on our phones, whether it's photos
(12:29):
that maybe shouldn't be there, politically incorrect, common whatever it
might be. We all got that right. Human beings do
that kind of thing. So David Ortiz. He's a rich
human being, which makes it even more of an issue,
and the areas he hangs in, and so he's trying
the effort. I know why he's doing this. Like the
reason Ortiz went public is because they said, hey, listen,
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these idiots are going to try to sell this stuff
to TMZ or some other website, gossip website, radar online,
those places that will often pay for content, and so
Ortiz is trying to cut them off at the pass.
And the problem is this, while it certainly will likely
work where the main tabloid old school tabloid media will
(13:13):
not pay for this content, the social media stuff, there's
no way to stop, and it lives forever on the
dark web. So that's the that's the issue right there.
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Right, well, I went to the according to the Internet,
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Yeah yeah. In fact, that place is so cool. I
did not realize this, but that and I forget the
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right across the way, there's like a baseball field and
that's like where Paul malletor the Hall of Fame baseball player.
That's like that was his place that he went to school.
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small school college, right, yeah, I think. I think nice
campus right across the way.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And they honored Paul Maltor. And I can't think of
a better honor than naming a juicy lucy after well, they.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Named a cigarette after him, you know, Paul malls So wow.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah. By the way, did you know I was saying,
have you ever been to Denver?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I have? Have you had the Ben Mather chicken sandwich
in Denver? Have you had that? Where is it? I
don't have. That's the Sportsbook, bar and grill there in
three locations. By when we when we started doing this
with the there was one location that that that sandwich
is so popular and three locations around Denver. Have you
ever been to.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Kansas That's okay, Sam, he hasn't had it either.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Shut up? Have you ever been to Kansas City?
Speaker 7 (18:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I have the Ben Mallard chicken fingers. Have you been
at the Landing oh my god, in Liberty, Missouri, Bibecue place.
But so, no, no, no, what Kansas City is the
home of the chicken finger. It's not the home of
the barbecue.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
The home of the chicken finger.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yes, the Ben Mallard chicken finger.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Everybody in Kansas City just got really pissed off you.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, they did not. They love me and keep until
you just said that. No, no, listen, the locals eat
the chicken fingers. That's what they do anyway. Freddie writes,
and he says, I guess they don't call David Ortiz
big Poppy for no reason.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Who else do we have page down here? Anthony and Anheims.
As I heard your announcement is that I will be
banned from calling the show and that Jed, who fled,
will be caller of the Year. He said, Splenda the splendor.
Daddy writes in he's doing the Tomahawk chop as we
(19:14):
speak right now. He says, Ben, you get a tiny
day for your Dodger talk. Go Braves. So he says, uh,
you gotta have a fall guy truck or Joe writes
in he is on the highways and byways of North America.
He says, I wonder if the big Poppy extortion has
anything to do with him getting a shot a few
(19:35):
years ago. He better be careful there you go, before
something happens, You've got to have a fall guy. Yeah.
I love that excuse that it was a mistake, a
case of mistaken identity. The only like fat guy in
the whole restaurant happened to get shot. But it was
a mistaken identity thing there. And there were some wild
(19:56):
gossip stories about what was going on. That story completely
went away, all the gossip about what was on the
internet about David o'de's and what was going on. It's
like completely vanished. Uh. And Jill writes, and she's in
the Minnesota. She points out that Joe Mauer went to
that school right across the street, and it's the Nook
(20:17):
by the way, I was saying.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Joel, Yeah, what a cool spot.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Uh, it's a high school Econ, Roseville, Minnesota, says, a
high school across the street from the Nook. Is is
it Creton?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Is that the Oh, it's like a Creton Durham. He's
like a lot of famous athletes have come out of there.
The name another one I think was it I might
be wrong here. Jalen Suggs who played at Gonzaga. He
might have come out of there, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I know he's from I look up. But this is
the content the listener needs.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
There is a small university or college. It's nearby that
my buddy took me to. It is a nice campus.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Joe Mauer, Paul Molliger and uh that's two. Chris Wank oh,
Chris Wenk Creed Durham.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Wasn't he fifty when he won?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Jalen Suggs, he's from some else.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
I don't know if I know any of these these
other names. I mean you probably do, but well.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Why would I Why would I know the old guys
old dude, I mean you know. Oh, here's one, but
I do. Matt Burke, Eddie, you remember Matt Burke offensive
Lineman for the Vikings, and I do, yes, I do.
Matt Burke went to this high school.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Oh, I must clarify.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Jalen Sugs went to uh Minnehaha Academy Minaha.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
It's actually ends in haha.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's unfortunate knowledge about so you got it wrong. I
mean that's about Michael Floyd. He's from random NFL receiver.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Oh, I know, I know Michael Floyd. I know that name.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, remember the name right? Oh, this is great conversation
in this good radio. Oh here's one Tim Tim remember
the umpire Eddie?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I do the name sounds familiar?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, well this is this is fascinating. Let's take some calls.
What do you say? Why not? Otherwise if the bosses
hear this, I will not be able to even make
it to my big announcement because I will be torn
off the air.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
We have a lot of listeners in that area, so
I'm probably doing good.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
We do, man, I tell you, and I met many
of them, and some legends. Legends came out to me.
The mala mean grey. Let's say hello to any meaning.
Let's go to Poppy in San Diego.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Hello Poppy, Hello guys, it's a great man. Hey Ben Mana.
That was a great show in the morning. I heard you. Man,
that's so amazing. You may like my girlfriend laugh. And
you know, I love the part when you were talking about,
you know, saving money and like saving in the airlines,
and like you were just roasting the co hols, like
(22:56):
who puts up all these kind of clothes? Right? Three
layers I remember, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I hear it.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I did get a message. There was somebody who sent
me an email about you, and I wanted to run
this by are you prepared to answer the question from
the listener? Okay, are you ready for this?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Of course, Ben, you're my mentor.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Of course I'm your mentor. I don't want to I
don't want that pressure of being a mentor. I don't
know about that. I mean, that's a lot of that's
a lot of pressure. I'm trying to find it. But
the guy I think it was, Hillbilly. Hill Billy wrote
in and he says that you're so arrogant and so
over the top that he actually now likes you. But
(23:39):
he said that you're you're lying. He says he's he's
gone back and listened to the podcast. He says, he
says Poppy is so bad, so full of himself, that
he's great. Hillbilly Mike writes in and says, I've gone
back to listen to pics that he has made and
they were just the opposite. So how do you respond
(24:00):
to that? The way I read this, it's your you
said that you won games that you did not win, Poppy,
how do you plead.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Hey, well you know what you know, some games have won,
some games.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
On the coolbo they're no winners, they're no losers, just
how you play the game.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Hey, you know it is what it is. Ben Mallard.
You know, shout out to my fans and my haters.
I know they love me out there. And you know
this segment, that's what everyone's waiting for. This segments brought
to you by Draft Kings guys, lets Uix on fight night.
It's gonna be in a Paris Dana White actually on
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(24:42):
T shirt. So he does listen to the Ben Mallard Show. Guys,
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yes, I'm sure listening right now.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Yeah, of course, yeah yeah, Dann, Why what's going on
day now? You gotta have me in one of your
shows and one of your pay per views, DNA y.
So we're going with the local guys. Gary Quinn he's
at minus won any to this is add We're gonna win.
He got knocked out destroyed by Ron Orleans, which is
(25:08):
the greatest heavyweight of all time. He's gonna win. Came
out as right for guys, and.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Okay, I'm done. Oh sports, Billy and Duluth wrote, and
he also had don't get a lot of email, a
lot of feedback that segment. People love that Cretan Durham
High School. I just want to I wanna talk more.
High school is what we got many We're gonna go
through the Twin cities, all the big high school. Yes school.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
I just want to clarify real quick. Uh, that call
from Poppy was not in fact sponsored by Draft Kings.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
No. No, in fact, if DraftKings ever hears that, they
will pull their sponsorship. So please don't tell DraftKings that that.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Happens sponsored by Craftings.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
We'll just pretend that didn't happen and we'll just move on.
Anthony and Anaheim says, what city is Iowa? Sam from?
I was just in the West des Moines area.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
I'm from Ima City, eastern Iowa.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
There you go, Anthony Live.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
I don't know if I've been to Clive. I'm looking
at this tweet right.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Now, Clive Iowa. Clive at Clive Iowa.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
I don't know much about Clive.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You've never heard of Clive?
Speaker 7 (26:13):
No, no Clive talking over here.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
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The Southern Utah ballments Ago All Thunderbirds in the End
z All. It is a one set game with less
than eight minutes on the clock. Unbelievable special teams play
by someone I've never heard of for Southern you thought
blocking the punt those heating points on special teams, taking
(27:48):
it back to the house.
Speaker 11 (27:50):
When none of the players have the names on their jerseys.
That costs too much money.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Use it again next year.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta earn that. You gotta earn
that by going to a better school, or at least
the school that has state.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
They don't put the names on the jerseys.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And it does appear ready that I'm looking at the
crowd there in Tempe right now and it is a
partial sellout, as they say back.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
After the dust storm and thunder lightning storm, I get it.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, et.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Arizona State's bull band like they're just like, Oh, we
don't really have anything to play for.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
We can't go to a bowl game.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So they got to bring back to that cartoon mascot.
They got to bring that back, the cartoon sun Devil.
They had, Yeah, bring back Sparky.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
He's still around. Not on the helmet though anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Is that because they don't have access to sell it?
Is that what I know? That's because that's why that's
why Oregon got rid of the duck. What what? Yeah,
because they have a deal Disney gave him. I remember
hearing about it years ago. Disney. I'm paraphrasing here ready,
but you can look it up. But they had a deal.
Disney wrote the duck that they had in their helmet.
They made a deal. You can't like sell merchandise with
(29:03):
the duck.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
I'm appreciating a lot of merchandise with that duck on it,
haven't they.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
The duck is still around. They can't get rid of
the duck and ducks helmet.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Though, I'm not wrong.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I mean, details might be a loft here, but.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Change their helmets every other day. Well yeah, but they
don't have the duck on.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
They do.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
We're looking at it right there. It's and this is
a throwback that I'm looking at it. They changed those
it's what's the duck?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The is it?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Daffy the Donald? It's Donald Donald's the lighter feathered duck.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
Right it's Donald donal No, I'm just daflare Daffy duck?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Is the one.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Seen?
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Is the last time the duck was on the hell there?
Speaker 11 (29:48):
Yeah, that's a long time ago, but the duck is
still around. You made it sound like they you said
they got rid of the duck.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, I was told years ago that they removed the
duck because of marketing reasons, as they wanted to be
able to not there's some some something. They had some
agreement with Disney. They were allowed to use the logo.
But they're like, I'll look at them. Okay, how are
you the deed? It is the Ben Malor Show. It's
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And this is amazing. We have live action in the
(30:37):
middle of How often do we get Usually we only
get bad stories, but we have every once in a while.
Usually there's games in like London or some Asia where
we get games while we're yapping away. But now we've
we've got action. Let's go to eeny Meeni mineing. Let's
go to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Oh we
(30:59):
don't apparently and I have to wait we'll wait for Andre. Anyway,
we will have coming up here Mallord to the third degree.
We're gonna get the Mallard of the third degree. The
wedding singer story an odd one from Major League Baseball.
Ronald Acuno Junior, the MVP candidate from the Atlanta Braves,
in a grand Slam on what turned out to be
his wedding night. Say what, Yeah, he got married. The
(31:23):
Braves are in LA and he went out and had
a little wedding and I'm not sure why, but he did.
And the Atlanta Braves beat the Dodgers. But Ronald Lacuna
Junior of the Braves also becoming the first player to
go thirty sixty and on the night that he became
(31:48):
a married man, congratulation. You think he got a pre nup.
It's got a lot of money. Could have more money
turned out for the Instan trivia. Here we go. There
have been many impressive rookie quarterbacks. However, Blank holds the
NFL record for the most touchdown passes in a first
(32:10):
career start again, all time NFL rookie quarterbacks been a
lot of good ones, but Blank holds the NFL record
for the most touchdown passes in the first career start.
That's the Insta tribute, the answer and Mallard of the
third degree. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (33:06):
Maller, Dixter call me, okay, haven't heard We haven't heard
from the Dixter. You need to hear from Dick. Come on, Dick,
call the show. Okay. Here's the Insta trivia. There have
been many quarterbacks that have stood out as rookies. However,
Blank holds the NFL record for the most touchdown passes
(33:27):
in his first start. That is the insta trivia. The answer, well,
the answer right now? The answer right now? Listen, does
anyone know the answer? Let's check. We'll go page down,
page down, A lot of interesting answer. Sam Maxwell guests
by Donkey Sausage, Don Henley from Art Puffin. He says,
(33:51):
I don't think that was his answer. I think he
just was commenting on the show, so he mentioned Don Henley.
Shane Flacco from Bean boot Maker by Matt Flynn, tossed
out by Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield, Yogi Bear from
Cowboy Killers, Zendaya from the Late Night drog Tester twenty
(34:12):
seven today, There you go. Southern Utah is Justin Miller
guest by Ferg Cat And we still have this game
on one score game nail biding time in the desert
of Tempe late night football. As will we see a
dramatic ending here for the upstart underdog Thunderbirds. It's a
(34:34):
field goal game closing in on what less than five
minutes or so to go, and Southern Utah has the ball.
Tavars Jackson guests by Alfie Alien Opiner in Springfield, mass
Who else? Page down, page down, Forever Uber eats Driver
Poppy in San Diego from Milkman Mike and Colorado revis
(34:54):
Island tossed out by Shane of Des Moines Matt the
Warrior Raider as fans going with Dan Marine as his answer.
Do you have an answer ready?
Speaker 8 (35:03):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with former Chicago Bear legend Mike Tomzak.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
It's a fine answer, but that's incorrect and the correct answer.
Marcus Mariota back in twenty fifteen to the old Tennessee
Titans had four touchdown passes. That is the most all
time for a rookie quarterback in his first start. Here
we go, it's smaller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Hoop a loop.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
It has been twenty two years since a Yankees' pitcher
has won a Cy Young Award. Garrett Cole has had
four top five finishes but has never won. Ben Do
you think this is the year that it happens?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Garrett Cole's the favorite. He's got cy Young numbers in
terms of the innings, the strikeouts, the era and all that. However,
he's not a lock even though he pitches for the
Yankees because the Yankees are a dumpster fire, and that's
gonna turn off a fair amount of voters. There's not
any pressure starts for Garrett Cole right now because the
(36:06):
Yankees are just playing out the string. But the problem
is there's no one else that really stands out, like
Luis Castillo. I would be okay with Castillo. I would
go with Castillo from the Mariners, but Kevin Gossman's been okay.
But neither one of those guys is a sexy pick.
So Garrett Cole is the highest paid pitcher and all that,
so he's he's the favorite, but he's not the lock next.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
Boomer Assiasin said in an interview this week that he
loves the Eagles rushing attack, but hopes that Jalen Hurts
is less involved in it. Ben Hurts had one hundred
and sixty five rushing attempts last season. Do you think
he'll have less this year?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Why the hell does Boomer assias In carre You don't.
You don't own the Philadelphia Eagles. No, the Pixie does
for the Eagles. The Birds is the dual threadability of
Jalen Hurts. If you take that away, they're not nearly
as lethal like an anaconda as they are with Jalen Hurts.
So I disagree, and he got paid, so it's not
like he's worried about protecting him to a wed injury.
(37:01):
This is the salad days of Jaialen Hurts. Play him,
play him. He got the golden parachute.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Next, it was reported that Jason Tatum attempted to recruit
Damian Lillard to Boston but was rebuffed because Lillard is
so focused on the heat. But nothing has happened yet
in the Lillard trade front. Will it happen?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yes, I explained to Rob Parker the other day. I said,
what I am doing with the coward here? I said, listen,
everyone's on vacation in the NBA. They're gonna come back
from vacation. Training camp starts soon. That's when it happens.
How do we know?
Speaker 7 (37:27):
Co you pass that as a way I won?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
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